"SACRAMENTO, CA— Today Assemblyman Jones released a statement regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in which they struck down a requirement by San Diego County that residents show 'good cause' to carry a concealed firearm. Before concluding its decision, the Ninth Circuit observed:

‘We are well aware that, in the judgment of many governments, the safest sort of firearm-carrying regime is one which restricts the privilege to law enforcement with only narrow exceptions. Nonetheless, ‘the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. . . . Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court [or ours] to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.’(McDonald v. Chicago)"

02/12/2014

We hate to say “We told you so” but if you keep doing what your doing, you will keep getting what you get...

"Nearly 30 people have been killed in school shootings within almost 14 months of the massacre in Newtown, Conn.

At least 44 shootings have occurred at elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as on college campuses, in 24 states across the country since Dec. 14, 2012. Twenty-eight people died and 37 suffered non-fatal gun wounds, according to an analysis jointly released Wednesday..."

02/10/2014

"Carla wasted no time. Wearing her nightgown, she went outside and fired once toward the ground. Carla says, it was just to scare them off. It worked. The two suspects ran back to a white sedan and drove off.

Carla says she heard one of them screaming, ‘Crazy b**ch has a gun!!’"

02/07/2014

While we would like to see even higher numbers, never look a gift horse in the mouth… Good job ladies, now get your friends involved.

"One month into the sign-up process for Illinois' concealed carry permits, 36,630 people have turned in applications. About one out of every 10 applicants is a woman.

Demand has been so high, Great River Firearms Training in Quincy offered a women's-only session.

In her downtown Quincy store, Premier Diva, owner Gerilynn Morrison sells clothing and other accessories for women. Some of her newest items are handbags designed specifically for women who plan on carrying a concealed gun."

02/04/2014

"If you are for gun control, then you're not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. You'll need to go around, pass laws, and shoot people who resist, kick in doors, and throw people in jail, and so on; rip up families, just to take away guns. So it's not that you're anti-gun, because [...] you'll need the police's guns to take away other people's guns, so you're very pro-gun, you just believe that only the government (which is of course so reliable, honest, moral, virtuous, and forward-thinking) should be allowed to have guns. So there's no such thing as gun control, there's only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small political elite and their minions. Gun control is a misnomer.” - Stefan Molyneux

"WASHINGTON – With Congress opposed to even the most modest efforts at gun control, activists are pressing a sympathetic White House to make gun ownership a public health and safety issue, and they're lobbying the Obama administration to pour money into public information campaigns and gun research.

Some groups contacted did not want to discuss details of their lobbying strategy.

‘As you might imagine, those are conversations that we aren't ready to speak to the media about,’ said Erika Soto Lamb, spokeswoman for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group formed and funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

But others, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they are hoping the president will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to launch a public safety campaign about the dangers of gun ownership, much like the agency did about the dangers of smoking. Gun control advocates are also pressing President Obama to spend more money on research about guns and gun ownership."

01/31/2014

"These people not only owned guns and fired them in self-defense. They also carried guns in defiance of discretionary permitting schemes of the type that said a bombing at Martin Luther King’s home did not constitute good cause for granting him a permit to carry a gun.

There are hints in the culture that carrying concealed weapons in defiance of state ‘authority’ was a minor art form. The delta activist T.R.M. Howard had a secret compartment built into his car. Fannie Lou Hamer’s mother carried a gun concealed in a bucket. Medgar Evers hid his pistol in a driver’s seat pillow. Others capitalized on the practice of church folk to carry around their Bibles in big leather covers, and stuffed guns in with the jumble of pens and papers.

But the prize for minimalist creativity goes to the lyrically named Sweets Turnbow, whose husband Hartman’s statement about ‘non-nonviolence’ I mentioned in my first post. At the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, Sweets Turnbow strolled the venues casually carrying a brown paper bag. It looked like she was toting her lunch. Years later, those who knew the truth would tell that inside the bag was a loaded pistol and how ‘Sweets never went anyplace without her brown paper bag and gun.’ It turns out this was a variation on the method employed by her husband Hartman, about whom Julian Bond reported, ‘It’s funny to see a man dressed like a farmer, with a briefcase. And he opens the briefcase and nothing’s in it but an army automatic.’

01/13/2014

"Solid Concepts announced the successful completion of the world’s first 3D Printed metal gun on November 7, 2013. The M1911 series 3D Printed metal gun reached over 1,000 rounds of firing without failure on November 21, 2013, and continues to fire successfully nearing 2,000 rounds. Now, the company has released plans to manufacture and sell 100 limited edition 1911 3D Printed metal guns."

11/13/2013

Last month we reviewed Kaluban Cloak's (www.kcloakusa.com) inside/outside (convertible) the waistband or "I/OWB" holster. If you missed the review you can catch up by reading it here.

I found out last evening that Eugene Yap's (principal) team is now designing a second generation I/OWB that will use a MILSPEC nylon (the same type used on rigger's belts) and velcro to take place of what I called the "J-Hook" in the review mentioned above. Additionally they plan on having a next generation loop attachment that will make the setup even more discreet and providing more concealability.

The team is striving to give the operator greater flexibility for their carry while making the holster more secure, quieter, and importantly - more concealable.

"Two days after the bloody siege of Westgate Premier Shopping Mall ended, Kenyans are reeling from the aftermath of the worst tragedy to strike their nation since the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing. This East African nation remains in an emotional limbo, as countless Kenyans search for relatives and friends. The official death toll is 61 civilians and six security personnel, but as many as 61 are missing, Kenya’s Red Cross said Thursday. "

09/16/2013

We don't think so, and neither does Professor David Kopel, who stated:

"‘The vast majority of defensive gun uses are at distances of just a few feet,’ he adds. ‘A woman who may not be able to read a street sign 50 yards away may still have sufficiently good vision to shoot a predator two feet away who is attempting to rape and strangle her. Moreover, a person who is totally blind can still identify the center of mass of a person who is trying to beat him to death.’"

09/11/2013

"HHS' Office for Civil Rights has sent a proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget that would ease legal barriers under HIPAA that prevent some states from reporting certain medical data to a federal gun-purchase background check database, Health Data Management reports."

09/09/2013

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

Fear - it's what gives power to those that control you… There is reasonable fear, and unreasonable fear. The fear of "weapons" and what to do about them is an unreasonable fear, it is one of the key tools used to control the masses.

We have mentioned this before, but despite what all the Ph.D's, talking heads, men in suits and politicians have been saying: there is no amount of psychological profiling that can guarantee this (Sandy Hook, school type shootings) won't happen again; door buzzers, metal detectors and CCTV will not prevent this from happening again; SWAT, FBI, State Police, local cops will not prevent this from happening again; and a solitary armed security guard in a school of 200 students with 15 classrooms, a gym and auditorium and offices will not prevent this from happening again.

The report below proves our point...

"'It's almost impossible to absolutely ensure that a gun is never going to come into a school building by the hands of a student, a teacher or a visitor,' said school safety expert Edward F. Dragan, founder of Education Management Consulting, LLC in Lambertville, N.J.

Of the state's approximately 1,100 public k-12 schools, 537 reported at least one incident where a 'weapon' was involved. The state collects the data from local school systems. Items are defined as weapons by their use and some common items found in schools, such as pens and pencils, are included."

09/08/2013

Of course liberal progressives are war mongers, once you accept extortion and violence by proxy as morally acceptable, there is no limit on who you will turn your guns on to have your way.

"He’s (The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson) not alone, of course, in following the lead of The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins, who asserts that ‘this time it’s different.’ You don’t have to buy historian Thaddeus Russell’s argument that liberal progressives have always been warmongers to feel a sense of sadness and nausea when reading endorsements of symbolic killing from The New York Times’ and Washington Post’s editorial boards."

"Officials in Chicago — where gun violence has persisted despite some of the nation's toughest handgun restrictions — are attempting an end run around a new state law that allows the public possession of concealed firearms.

A city council committee approved an ordinance Friday that would require Chicago bars and restaurants that serve alcohol to ban firearms. Those that don't could lose their liquor licenses. The proposal, which still must be voted on by the full council, is stricter than the law approved by the Illinois Legislature earlier this year. That measure bans firearms from establishments where alcohol sales account for at least half of revenues.

09/05/2013

The violence by-proxy group (anti gun people) are at it again, asking businesses to disarm peaceable citizens and make them into citizens of their own image; victims in waiting.

"Three Connecticut Democrats have joined the campaign requesting Starbucks prohibit firearms in their shops nationwide, reports the Hill.

A recent letter, composed by victims of December's shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School asking Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to help 'foster a culture of peace and ban guns from your stores,’ was endorsed by Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty.

According to the letter, the Starbucks gun policy, which permits customers to carry firearms, including concealed weapons, 'undermines the safety and well-being of our citizens.’

The Starbucks policy is in accordance with local laws.

'[T]o prevent another Sandy Hook, we as a society must prioritize the sanctity of human life over the individual’s 'right to carry,'' the letter reads."

09/02/2013

As usual, Emily Miller presents a compelling argument: "The big three broadcast networks — ABC, NBC, and CBS — ran 216 segments on gun policy on their evening and morning shows in the month after the December 2012 Newtown shooting, according to a Media Research Center study. Of these, the stories advocating more gun control outnumbered stories featuring opposition to new restrictions by a ratio of 8 to 1. CBS was the most biased with a 22-to-1 ratio of gun control to gun-rights stories."

08/30/2013

"Editor’s note: For September cover story of TheBlaze Magazine, Kathy Jessup investigated NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pro-gun-control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns and what she found was an intertwined group of left-wing groups and financiers and an organization that’s using government resources to fight for the agenda of an anti-gun politician through a non-profit organization.

Kathy reveals that Bloomberg has launched a massive campaign to undermine the Second Amendment and rid America of guns. And he’s using shady connections and taxpayer dollars to do it."

"The tragedies of the past couple of years have forced us to take a good look inward at our own social conscience. As Americans, we live under the assumption that our lives are safe, our rights protected, and that we can walk around with the peace of mind that we will not be under threat from a hammer attack. But it appears our safety is nothing but an illusion. Annual FBI crime statistics show that more people are killed by hammers and clubs than by shotguns and rifles. In order for our society to be safe, we must stop the harbingers of mass destruction that have perpetuated the idea that sledgehammers are acceptable. We must end the idolization of people like Gallagher, Thor, and Mario the Plumber; and until we do this, the safety of all Americans is at stake. "

08/25/2013

As usual, the liberal media sets up a straw man argument that it knocks down by ignoring reality.

In this case, a young man, violating numerous laws got lucky when he ran into a woman who was disarmed by the very laws the boy was violating. Had there been a law enforcement officer present the story would likely have had ended differently - and righteously so. Had that happened, the violence by-proxy loving liberal media would have had an entirely different take on the story.

As we have said many times, violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it is the only answer… and while we begrudge no person the right to not use violence, we just demand the right to protect ourselves with violence (by whatever means necessary) when violence finds us.

"This time there were no injuries. And it’s for a different reason than many gun rights advocates would have us expect. A school clerk with a heart — not a good guy with a gun — did the work.

The role of Antoinette Tuff in thwarting the gunman is significant. Tuff is the embodiment of the wisdom that not every threat of violence needs to be met with more violence."

08/14/2013

Funny how politicians extort us to protect themselves with violence by proxy (they don't have the cojones to protect themselves), yet they expect us to accept that our children should roll over and/or run like a submissive dog when it comes to their lives.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

"In response to the Newtown, Conn. massacre and a host of school shootings in recent years, the Obama administration released a 67-page report on emergency planning this summer that includes several pages advising educators on how to manage ‘an active shooter situation.’

The U.S. Department of Education’s ‘live-shooter’ section doesn’t recommend that schools arm teachers or employ armed guards. It doesn’t even advise schools to add door locks for classrooms.

Instead, the section counsels teachers and students to ‘run,’ ‘hide’ and then ‘fight’—but only ‘if neither running nor hiding is a safe option.’"

08/12/2013

"The technological system, known as a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), utilizes tiny devices that are implanted in guns and other weapons. These devices are more than chips; they are actual mechanical processes created by precision engineering that can affect the weapon’s operations. Media reports reveal the devices include miniature GPS systems designed to make guns easier to track and self-destruct systems that could cause them to explode if they receive a wireless signal.

The technology coincides with the ‘smart gun’ technology Anthony Gucciardi has broken down in the past, which can be used to ‘turn off’ weapons when in gun free zones or whenever designated by government."

07/31/2013

"When Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), released her memorandum on how to reduce gun violence in the United States and Latin America, it revealed not only the CFR’s blatant disregard for Americans' Second Amendment rights but also Sweig's proclivity to use outdated and widely discredited statistics to make her case for more restrictions on those rights. She also used flawed logic and outright falsehoods:…

But as William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott from Fox News reported, ‘There’s just one problem with the 90 percent ‘statistic’, and it’s a big one: it’s just not true…’

So, where do they come from? The authors tick off the sources:

• The black market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers;

• South America. During the late 1990s the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling … partnership with the Tijuana cartel (in Mexico)…;

• Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico;

• The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers [have] deserted in the last six years.… Many of them took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium;

• Guatemala. On March 27th, 2009 … police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border [of Guatemala]."

What is plainly evident to me (Ron) is that Mrs. Yewman is driven by unreasonable fear, and that the title of her article reflects her world view, which seems to be one of unhealthy and unreasonable fear of may things: gun owners, firearms, etc. Reasonable fear is good -- it is a survival instinct which has some very real benefits; however, unreasonable fear and unreasoned thought are more deadly than any firearm in any individuals hands.

What Mrs. Yewman is arguing for is centralizing guns into the hands of a privileged few -- by way of the very violence that she claims to disagree with -- because it will take an empowered group (police and military) armed with the very types of firearms she dislikes, and using the credible threat of violence to disarm a mostly peaceable citizenry. Historically, the idea of a state monopoly on violence has proven to work out poorly for the citizenry and produced less than optimal results. This proposed "solution" doesn't work to prevent crime, the state admits this time and time again, and even encourages people to fend for themselves. Yet this violence toward a nation of mostly peaceable citizens is something that Mrs. Yewman supports, whether she and her kind admit it to themselves or not.

What Mrs. Yewman is admitting to is an overwhelming and unreasonable fear: she is afraid to accept personal responsibility for her safety and the safety of her loved ones, and instead, wishes to use violence by-proxy (using an intermediary to do your dirty work) which can only be supported by violence and coercion to do so when that personal responsibility becomes a "right" to security in the slaves mind. This is a path that cowards choose just so they can feel safer without any real payoff in actual security for their family and loved ones -- all at the expense of other innocents.

Make no mistake, Mrs. Yewman's hopes and demands will bring about only the death of more innocents, while funding her own servitude via extortion and violence by-proxy on a mass scale.

07/29/2013

"An Illinois sheriff’s team is crisscrossing the Chicago suburbs in an effort to seize guns from thousands of people whose right to own a firearm has been revoked, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

According to the paper, more than 3,000 people in Cook County have failed to surrender their revoked Firearm Owners Identification Card, or FOID, which is required to legally buy guns or ammunition.

Sheriff Tom Dart said he thinks many of the 3,000 continue to possess firearms.

The Chicago Police Department regularly conducts missions to recover revoked FOID cards and take guns from the owners, but there wasn’t a big push to do the same thing in the suburbs until now, Dart reportedly told the paper.

‘The system is broken,’ the sheriff said. ‘The system revokes cards, but the guns are of no consequence. . . . Our strong hope is that we will eliminate tragedies.’"

07/26/2013

"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Wednesday that she would soon introduce legislation that would cut federal funding to any state that doesn’t require neighborhood watch programs to register with police.

Jackson Lee said her Justice Exists for All Act is a response to the trial of George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter charges after shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was the neighborhood watch coordinator in the Florida neighborhood where the shooting took place.

‘We will … decrease the incidence of gun violence resulting from vigilantes by reducing by 20 percent the funds that would otherwise be allocated … to any state that does not require local neighborhood watch programs to be registered with a local [law] enforcement agency,’ Jackson Lee said on the House floor."

07/25/2013

"Alabama's new gun law takes effect August 1. It will include some significant changes for business owners, and law enforcement wants to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Under the law, businesses cannot prohibit their employees from having firearms in their cars while at work. However, in order to have them on company grounds, employees must now have a license to carry a concealed weapon.

'Under the new law you will be able to transfer a handgun in a vehicle as long as it is unloaded and it is secured in a container that is inaccessible to anyone in the passenger compartment,' said Lee County Sheriff, Jay Jones."

The Obama-sponsored bill (SB 2386) enlarged the state’s 1961 law by shielding the person who was attacked from being sued in civil court by perpetrators or their estates when a ‘stand your ground’ defense is used in protecting his or her person, dwelling or other property."

07/22/2013

"Mohandas Gandhi, the greatest pacifist of the 20th century, is widely quoted as having said, ‘Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look back upon the Act depriving the whole nation of arms as the blackest.’

Some have struggled to reconcile his pacifism with an opposition to disarmament. But there really is nothing to reconcile once you understand, as Gandhi said on another occasion, that ‘the State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form.’

Peaceful Gun Owners and the Violent State

Gun control advocates have long associated themselves with the cause of anti-violence. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says it all in its name. In the midst of high-profile mass shootings in 2012 — at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, a Colorado movie theater, and a Connecticut elementary school — we immediately heard calls for greater firearms restrictions in the name of domestic peace. Those of us who resisted this agenda were often decried for insensitivity toward the horrors of violence against the innocent. Gun controllers seem not to recognize that their policy itself encapsulates violence.

All the government’s prohibitions rely on violent state power. Indeed, the state itself is simply the institution with a socially legitimized monopoly on legal force, as most law and political science professors would agree. When the state criminalizes an activity or the ownership of contraband, it enforces its prohibition through legal violence — ultimately, through police using guns to force suspects to go to court and, if convicted, to go to prison…"

"I’m not saying if we allow OC (open carry) here in Florida that old ladies are going to drop their make-shift asps and grab a shoulder holster and a 44 Magnum to walk around the shuffleboards (although I bet some will and will suddenly see their scores go up). In fact, I’d go so far as to say when people can bear arms openly and not have the gov’t interfere, that very few people will actually take advantage of it. Most people will simply switch to a more comfortable OWB holster and cover with their shirt.

There’s still a social stigma that will prevent people from OC’ing and, to be honest, those who tend to ignore the social stigma aspect tend to be people with low levels of couth, hence why it appears that many OC activists are blowhards – they actually are. My original point stands, however – Most Floridians see people walking around openly carrying weapons all the time and don’t blink an eye. Why the type of weapon matters is beyond me."

"If it wasn’t bad enough that the President and the AG Eric Holder have began their crusade to turn victims who defend themselves into felons, now John McCain, the former GOP Presidential candidate, has joined ranks with them in calling for a ‘review’ (aka revocation) of ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws nationwide.

This announcement comes in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict where the neighborhood watch volunteer legally defended his life from an assault perpetrated by Trayvon Martin. Apparently these left leaning politicians aren’t content with the verdict and now want to make it illegal for all Americans to defend themselves from such violent attacks. Couple that with their regularly scheduled gun grabs and it seems we’re in for another bumpy ride."

07/21/2013

"I’m in NY this week (Long Island) & I’ve noticed that the fire marshals out here go about armed.

I have to wonder, how often are fire marshals getting into gun fights or other incidents where carrying a gun as part of the job is a called for?

Not that I object, but this is NY, where guns are bad, or something.

I’ll also note that I saw this while in a burger joint that was full. There were 5 armed men in there wearing blue trousers, a white shirt, and a patch on the sleeve that said Fire Marshal. Not exactly a complicated uniform to copy. No one questioned their legitimacy. No one freaked out."

"In an attempt to restore some logic and sense to the ongoing debate over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, I’m going to respond to a USA Today Editorial Board perspective that pretty much sums up the consensus the mainstream media has about the case, i.e. guns, gun culture and common sense self-defense laws are to blame for the death of the Florida teen.

'Just about every aspect of why and how George Zimmerman came to fatally shoot an unarmed teenager on Feb. 26, 2012, is open for debate.

But one conclusion ought to be obvious: If Zimmerman had not been carrying a gun that night, Trayvon Martin would be alive today.

An unarmed Zimmerman probably would have heeded police advice to stay in his truck after seeing someone he believed was ‘up to no good.’ And even if the neighborhood watch volunteer had left the vehicle, his altercation with Martin is unlikely to have turned deadly if a firearm had not been involved.'

Alright, let’s stop right there. Many journalists and gun control proponents continue to argue this point.

However, what the fail to consider is the other real possibility. That is, if Zimmerman not had a gun, would he still be alive today?"

07/15/2013

"'I’ve yet to come across an enthusiastic proponent of gun control who wasn’t making some basic mistakes in reasoning. Today it was the turn of Jim Rossignol to rehearse the usual blunders. I picked out his most substance-rich comments from our twitter exchange.

"It’s impossible to read reports of US murder cases without thinking: ‘They allow people to own guns. Actual guns'"

In general I take Rossignol to be implying that disallowing citizens to own guns would lead to a better outcome, and by ‘better’ I mean something like less death and suffering.'"

07/12/2013

"An Ohio board of education has decided to allow teachers and staff of the Newcomerstown Exempted Village School District to carry firearms in school to protect themselves and children in the event of a shooting. stock_327According to TimesReporter,The board of education recently approved the policy authorizing ‘certain persons designated by the board and superintendent to convey deadly weapons … in a school safety zone of the Newcomerstown Exempted Village School District.’"

07/11/2013

So much for NYC putting on airs of being cultured and refined - they are now bringing new Jim Crow laws to a new generation:

"In most places where pistol licensing is required, the fee is fairly small. As low as $10 to $20, even in upstate New York. But in New York City, the fee to own a handgun is somewhere in the ballpark of $340. Any reasonable person might come to the conclusion that an increase in cost of over 300% from one part of the state to another might be due to the local government actively trying to discourage people from applying. Basically, a back-door handgun ban — particularly targeted at keeping the poor (those most likely to be victims of a crime) from being able to own the Constitutionally protected tools to defend themselves. But a federal appeals court in New York has just ruled that charging a $340 fee doesn’t violate the Second Amendment. . ."

Oh really? Why not make it a $3,400 license so only the ultra rich and the politicians can afford to protect themselves?

07/10/2013

"Is that it’s easy to spot tyranny when the ‘right people’ get to break those laws:

Security officers at a federal building in downtown Detroit found a gun in the purse of Betty Petrenz, Conyers’ office manager. Bringing weapons into government buildings is strictly forbidden, but Petrenz received no sentence or formal punishment. Just a ticket, which will be stricken from her record if she demonstrates good behavior.

Conyers is a strong advocate of stronger gun control laws who has received an ‘F’ grade from the National Rifle Association.

If hypocrisy had an usable electron imbalance, this one episode alone could power the Midwest through Feb 2018.

She gets a ticket. Which will be eventually ‘forgotten’ about. You and I? We’d be in Federal PMITA Prison and the judge would probably try to ensure our parents and children were tossed in jail for good measure.

There is no valid reason why Ms Petrenz should be treated any different than any US Citizen, but she is because those in power feel no need to constrain themselves to the laws they demand we follow."

Shocking we know, but: "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is at it yet again. In spite of having some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, after gun violence in his fair city peaked last weekend he’s calling for… wait for it… increased gun controls. ‘Having effective gun control is essential to providing safety around the city,’ Emanuel said (apparently without irony) at a press conference. Claiming that Chicago’s gun laws need to be different than those elsewhere in Illinois, Emanuel said that ‘gun control is essential.’ To fix the problem, he’s calling for . . .

…a special session of the City Council next week to get them to vote on an updated assault weapons ban and approve stiffer penalties for those who commit gun crimes. So let’s see if I have this right…Chicago’s gun controls apparently don’t slow down gang-related gun crimes at all, so the solution is to add even more controls on the guns the gang-bangers don’t use? What exactly is this guy smoking?"

I am not so sure the author has this right, I think they understand enough about guns to attempt to pass legislation to ban them for not meeting a certain criteria...

"Once again, anti gun politicians are showing they simply have no idea how firearms and the real world works.

In a recent statement, Rep. Jackie Speier (pictured, majestically in front of a nice, fake ocean backdrop), says she will pursue legislation that will make it illegal to sell or buy any gun that can be fired by a 5 year old child.

Uh, what? So I guess that would include any gun capable of firing in single action, 1911 style pistols, Glocks, etc. It’s unsure if she thinks a thumb safety would prevent a child from firing a gun.

You would think the Congresswoman would be OK with double action only guns with long trigger pulls, but no. The event that sparked this idea was a 5 year old girl accidentally killing herself with a .38 caliber revolver. So apparently no current gun would meet Speier’s definition of child proof. Sounds like roundabout gun banning to me."

07/09/2013

Overall, the Justice Department report said, firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011, while nonfatal firearm crimes declined from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.

This is something that Murdoc tries to make sure everyone understands when we talk about guns, gun violence, and gun control:

The drop extended to schools: Homicides at schools declined from an average of 29 per year in the 1990s to an average of 20 per year in the 2000s.

I’m not sure that one person I’ve ever told that gun violence in schools is down has ever believed me for a second."

"All 50 states now have concealed handgun laws on their books. It will be up to six months to set up a system to start accepting applications, and it is obvious that the state police will drag this out as long as possible. Six months before they start accepting applications and probably months after that, so it won't be until next spring that people will be able to start carrying in Illinois.

Spokeswoman Monique Bond said police expect 300,000 applications in the first year.

This guess is simply wrong. With the high training requirement and the high fee for getting a permit, I would predict that there will be fewer than 100,000 permits and possibly much less than that. It is hard to be very accurate on this because no other state has as long of a training requirement. "

07/08/2013

"In Houston on Sunday afternoon, three armed men entered a home and demanded payment. They got payment. The owner of the home grabbed his gun, shot two of them dead, and scared off the third, who ran.

This is the kind of welcome that should greet all such intruders in America, every time. It should greet all such intruders, all over the world, every time. If there were more greetings like this, there would be fewer intruders like this…

The two dead intruders will not be arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to jail for several years at the public’s expense. They will simply be buried. From a a tax-efficiency standpoint, this is surely the way to handle armed intruders."

06/25/2013

"An international firearms dealer said the White House is blocking ammunition sales to American citizens as federal agencies continue to stockpile.

‘There are elements in the United States government moving to obstruct commercial ammunition sales,’ said Anthony Melé, an international firearms dealer and owner of AMI Global Security, LLC. AGS is a defense trade and manufacturer’s exporter registered with the U.S. Department of Defense and the United Nations.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives denied AGS’s application for an ammunition-order by designating typical rifle rounds as armor piercing if they are made with a steel core instead of a lead core, he said. ‘They designated the ammunition AP, defined as armor piercing, even though the ammunition being supplied cannot pierce armor.’"

06/17/2013

"If the anti gunners get their way, this type of violence might be heading to your town. For now, violence like this seems to be focused in the most anti gun cities in the US such as Chicago, New York and Washington DC, while cities with high rates of gun ownership continue to enjoy much lower violent crime rates. According to the Chicago Tribune, 26 people were shot and 6 people killed, in separate instances, in about 12 hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The first shooting happened around 10:12pm last night according to the Tribune and the most recent reported shooting happened just after 4am."

"On the 6th month anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings, members of Organizing for Action (the president’s political non-profit) thought they should have a rally to support more gun control in California. According to SBSun.com, a whopping three people showed up to the anti gun rally. We have heard rumors that all three were actually living, breathing human beings."

"‘It’s very easy to blame an inanimate object. Any kind of instrument in the wrong hands can be put to evil use. This comes down to intent — criminal behavior, accountability and responsibility,’ Mr. Kollitides said in an exclusive interview last week. The killer’s mother, Nancy Lanza, taught her son to shoot and is said to have given him access to the gun safes."

06/14/2013

"I just don't understand how John Zawahari could have allegedly shot and killed all those people at Santa Monica College last Friday. After all, not only is murder against the law, the city of Santa Monica has strict gun control laws as does the state of California. And also, according to its website, Santa Monica College is a gun free school. "